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Fluctuations of the Boundary-Driven Symmetric Zero-Range Process from the NESS

Probability 2026-01-09 v1

Abstract

We study the non-equilibrium stationary fluctuations of a symmetric zero-range process on the discrete interval {1,,N1}\{1, \ldots, N-1\} coupled to reservoirs at sites 11 and N1N-1, which inject and remove particles at rates proportional to NθN^{-\theta} for any value of θR\theta\in\mathbb{R}. We prove that, if the jump rate is bounded and under diffusive scaling, the fluctuations converge to the solution of a generalised Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equation with characteristic operators that depend on the stationary density profile. The limiting equation is supplemented with boundary conditions of Dirichlet, Robin, or Neumann type, depending on the strength of the reservoirs. We also introduce two notions of solutions to the corresponding martingale problems, which differ according to the choice of test functions.

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@article{arxiv.2601.04997,
  title  = {Fluctuations of the Boundary-Driven Symmetric Zero-Range Process from the NESS},
  author = {Patrícia Gonçalves and Adriana Neumann and Maria Chiara Ricciuti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.04997},
  year   = {2026}
}

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54 pages, 3 figures

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